position on the basis of creatio ex nihilo ,
creation out of nothing. All that exists has been called from
nothing by the voice of God and brought into existence, and at
any moment could in principle return to the nonexistence from
which it

looking back to alpha , to creatio ex nihilo , and looking forward to
omega , the new creation ex vetere, out of what has come before . The new creation will emerge from what Gods Spirit does to the
present creation.
We believe the

of divine action, such as creatio ex nihilo . The analog of human
agency is of some limited help here. However, the principal barrier is that we
could only know the critical nexus if we ourselves were divine, or if God
revealed such knowledge

the
universe as a whole ( ex nihilo )
and every event in time ( creatio continua ).
The quantum nonseparability of the universe is suggestive of the New
Testaments view of the unity of creation. In the process Chiao discusses such
ideas as

in the Christian
sense of creatio ex nihilo . Instead it is like a painter
mixing pigments on a canvas. It is a non- random process that promotes
adaptation, that is, combinations useful to the organisms. By proceeding
stepwise, it